Canada's dollar and Mexico's peso were edging higher on Friday, having dropped Thursday after President Donald Trump signaled he planned to impose tariffs on imports from the two countries. Trump told reporters he would follow through with a plan to impose levies on goods from the U.

President Donald Trump’s renewed pledges to slap 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1 jolted foreign exchange markets late in the New York trading session, sending currencies from both countries plunging against the US dollar.

US President Donald Trump has said he will follow through with his threat to hit imports from Canada and Mexico with 25% border taxes, known as tariffs, on 1 February. But he added that a decision about whether this would include oil from those countries has not yet been made.